Erika Tarantal serves as co-anchor for "Weekend Today in New York" and as a general assignment reporter filing stories for various News 4 New York newscasts during the week.Tarantal joined WNBC as a general assignment reporter in December 2007.

Tarantal came to WNBC from NBC owned WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut where she served as a general assignment reporter beginning in October 2005.Prior to that, Tarantal rose through the ranks at News 12 in the Bronx where she began as a general assignment reporter and then was promoted to anchor of the station's weekday morning newscast.Tarantal also served previously as a production assistant at WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts.
Before getting her start in broadcasting, Tarantal was a paralegal for the Office of the Attorney General in Boston.

Tarantal graduated from Connecticut College where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Government.
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MANCHESTER - In the Sunday, Jan. 17 edition of the New York Times wedding section former Manchester resident Lucas Nathan and Erika Tarantal were chosen as the feature story.

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Tarantal and Nathan first met at a party during college, but later when they're paths crossed again a courtship ensued.

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"I've always known about Erika, she's my first cousin's friend," said Nathan.

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When they first met, Tarantal said it was Nathan's confidence that first attracted her to him.

"He exudes a lot of confidence, but he's also pretty fun," she said.

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The he got down on one knee and presented Tarantal with the ring, which he had designed himself.

"I was completely surprised when he proposed," Tarantal said.
"But I knew this was the man that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with."

The couple got married in January because of their busy schedules.
Tarantal is a weekend anchor and reporter for WNBC-TV in New York and Nathan, in addition to pursuing his masters degree in Real Estate Finance and Development at NYU (New York University), is a full time broker for the New York based real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens.